Dixon takes first pole of season in Toronto

The Chip Ganassi Racing-Chevrolet driver clicked off a 59.9073sec lap to edge the fastest Penske, that of Helio Castroneves, by a mere 0.0352sec. Castroneves’ teammates Simon Pagenaud and Will Power surprisingly fell 0.32 and 0.5sec short respectively.

KVSH Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais was fifth, also half a second behind Dixon, while James Hinchcliffe was a full 1.1sec shy but only completed two laps.

Dale Coyne Racing did a great job to get both its cars into Q2, Conor Daly making the best of the situation to grab seventh on the grid with Luca Filippi 11^th. Between them will be Iowa winner Josef Newgarden (Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet), the fourth Penske of Juan Pablo Montoya who did a fine job of rebounding from yesterday’s crash, and the second Schmidt Peterson car of Mikhail Aleshin.

Carlos Munoz was best of the Andretti Autosport-Hondas in 15^th, just ahead of Graham Rahal who tagged the wall on his final lap in Q1, having struggled all weekend with the balance and traction of his Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-Honda.

IndyCar 2016 - Toronto - Qualifications
P.	N°	Driver	Team (Engine)	Time/deficit
1	9	Scott Dixon	Ganassi (C)	59.9073
2	3	Helio Castroneves	Penske (C)	59.9425
3	22	Simon Pagenaud	Penske (C)	1:00.2293
4	12	Will Power	Penske (C)	1:00.4085
5	11	Sébastien Bourdais	KVSH (C)	1:00.4221
6	5	James Hinchcliffe	Schmidt (H)	1:01.5637
7	18	Conor Daly	Coyne (H)	1:00.5693
8	21	Josef Newgarden	Carpenter (C)	1:00.5885
9	2	Juan Pablo Montoya	Penske (C)	1:00.6532
10	7	Mikhail Aleshin	Schmidt (H)	1:00.6635
11	19	Luca Filippi	Coyne (H)	1:00.7784
12	10	Tony Kanaan	Ganassi (C)	1:00.8561
13	41	Jack Hawksworth	Foyt (H)	1:00.6930
14	8	Max Chilton	Ganassi (C)	1:00.6372
15	26	Carlos Muñoz	Andretti (H)	1:00.7712
16	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal (H)	1:00.7088
17	83	Charlie Kimball	Ganassi (C)	1:00.9060
18	28	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti (H)	1:00.8721
19	98	Alexander Rossi	Andretti-Herta (H)	1:01.2087
20	14	Takuma Sato	Foyt (H)	1:01.4012
21	20	Spencer Pigot	Carpenter (C)	1:01.3360
22	27	Marco Andretti	Andretti (H)	1:01.4384